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1. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…The Siegfried Halbreich papers contain primarily the subject files of Siegfried Halbreich, a concentration camp survivor who spent much of his later…
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 … of Siegfried Halbreich, a concentration camp survivor who spent much of his later life lecturing and educating about the Holocaust. Included in his…
2. Russell Kowalyshyn papers
1995.A.0232 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0232
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1994
… American printed materials documenting Nazi Germany, the Allied victory, Dachau concentration camp, and the war crimes trials in Nuremberg. The collection…
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 … victory, Dachau concentration camp, and the war crimes trials in Nuremberg. The collection also includes Kowalyshyn’s Dachau pass and obituary, blank…
3. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.41
Date:
1981 October
Subtitle:
Interview transcripts
… October 1981. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at various Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe at the end of World War II. Also…
4. Bergen-Belsen
Document | RG Number: RG-08.002.11
Date:
1945-1950
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
5. Testimony
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0345 | RG Number: RG-02.200
Subtitle:
World War II, 1941-1945
…Describes Marcel Lubash’s (b. 1922 in Rzeszow, Poland) experiences in the Lwów ghetto and Janowska concentration camp; death of his parents…
6. Oral history interview with Irving Balsam
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.4 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being transferred to Lagisza concentration camp; his liberation by the American Army on May 5, 1945; immigrating to the United States in December 1948…
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 …, that the whole world stood idly by and watched the annihilation of the Jewish people, men, women and child, concentration camps, gas chambers, wagons…
7. William Ornstein papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0077 | RG Number: RG-10.089
Date:
1944-1970
…Contains information about war crimes trials; war criminals; prisoners of Mauthausen concentration camp; and William Ornstein's participation in…
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 … William Ornstein from the premises of the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen after that camp's liberation. These materials were used by Ornstein as…
8. Signal Corps photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2009.327 | RG Number: RG-09.081
Date:
creation: 1945
…Consists of 23 enlarged copyprints of images taken by the United States Army Signal Corps. Includes images of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the…
9. Oral history interview with Alexei Gorlinsky, Lieutenant Petrenko, and Colonel Kotlyar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.15 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0015
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Includes oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps.…
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 … his concentration camps, but the general had not anticipated the degree of inhumane cruelty which he would see upon liberation of the camps. When the…
10. Oral history interview with Jack Klinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.75 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0075
Date:
interview: 1991 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being taken in April 1945 to a camp of Russian POWs; he describes this camp, Buchenberg, and the prisoners' survival until liberation by the Americans…
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 … numbers of those that were already sent for extermination. Worked at the concentration camp office for two and a half years and witnessed many other events…
11. Anton Litwin collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.166
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
12. Oral history interview with Yitzhak Finkel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.38 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0038
Date:
interview: 1991 June 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… conditions in the camps; his experiences of going to Buchenwald and Terezin; his illness at Terezin; the liberation of Terezin; witnessing the trial of Gunther…
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 …, and transported by train to Chestokhova to work in a weapons factory. Describes the organization of the work camp, work, and treatment by Kapos. 3…
13. Oral history interview with Sima Skurkovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.151 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0151
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
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 … sadistic commanders. 8.39 Prepares Chanuka celebration in camp. 9.02 She is taken by train to Bergen Belsen, describes camp and then liberation 6 of April by…
14. Oral history interview with Zvi Naor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.111 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0111
Date:
interview: 1992 June 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … a concentration camp: Budzin. It was near a German factory for building airplanes. In one shift of 12 hours we assembled the body of one airplane. We…
15. Henry C. Senger collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.225.1
Date:
2003
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
16. Oral history interview with Abraham Kolski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.368.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0113
Date:
interview: 1990 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … it will be the best. Q: The best of what? A: The best not to take us in our camp like Treblinka or Auschwitz. We didn't know from Auschwitz at that…
17. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…’s family prior to his imprisonment in several concentration camps. The photograph marked 1991.105.02 is a portrait of Stephen Lerner. 1991.105.03 shows the…
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 … forces in January of 1943, until he was liberated by United States forces in January of 1945. He was transported to several concentration camps…
18. Oral history interview with Adalbert Lallier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.62 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0525
Date:
interview: 2008 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … [indecipherable] Q: Right. A: There was no knowledge of concentration camp. Q: There wasn’t? A: I think the much greater evil was the hanging of all these Serbs…
19. Oral history interview with Ya'akov Eisner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.34 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0034
Date:
interview: 1992 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; returning to Czestochowa (now a camp); liberation with his wife by Soviet troops; his immigration to Israel; and being a witness at a war criminal trial of S…
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 … Jews had to give up all of their valuables (gold, furs, etc.). Jakov got a job with the Jewish Council and worked in the Hasak slave camp. In 1942, on…
20. Oral history interview with Esther Terner Raab
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0184
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … father gone, she lost a lot of will to live, I would say. And we decided, being we had family in Siedliszcze. At that time it wasn't a camp yet. It was…